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Omnipure Opens New Headquarters And Plant In Sugar Land, Texas The official opening of Omni- pure's new headquarters and plant was recently announced by Leon- ard Langeland, president of Omnipure. Omnipure is a division of Sigma-Chapman, Inc., and is now headquartered in Sugar Land, Tex- as. The new structure is located at 12850 Bournewood Drive on a one- acre land parcel in the Sugar Land Business Park. "Our new two-story building and adjoining plant," says Mr. Lange- land, "contain a total of 14,300 square feet. That's more than three times the size of our previous facili- ty. This move has been in response to such a large increase in our busi- ness worldwide. The steel frame building took only four months to build and has free standing, mov- able, tilt walls to accommodate our future expansion." Omnipure was founded in 1979, and is a leading manufacturer of marine sanitation devices and raw water chlorination equipment for the offshore industry. Its products are certified by the U.S. Coast WMM HARBOR MONITORING SYSTEM Color video display of Port Elizabeth, NJ shows everything you need to see at a glance. ELECTRONIC CHARTS THAT REVOLUTIONIZE VESSEL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT. NOW HARBOR MANAGEMENT, CONTROL AND SECURITY ARE SAFER AND EASIER. • Enables controllers to locate vessels quickly and easily and to track and guide their movements. • Provides surveillance and accident avoidance data. • Operates in darkness, fog and storm. Displays correct position of off-station and missing buoys. • Displays overviews of entire tactical situation and area close-ups in full- color on a video display, in user- selected ranges from 1 to 48 nm square. • Shows to-scale, accurately digitized, updated, NOS-quality Electronic Charts of harbors and waterways with all navigation aids, shore contours, bridges, channel and anchorage boundaries, shoals, piers, etc. • Automatically superimposes true- motion radar images of vessels and hazards in exact locations and scale. Shows direction of movement, distance and approximate speed. • Extensive interactive data base can store, revise, update and display ship names and locations, arrival/departure times, pilot names, etc. Anything you need to recall can be simultaneously displayed in alphanumerics. • Displays anchorage grids with coordinates to facilitate vessel location and identification. Detects vessel movement. • Much easier to understand than radar alone, the user-friendly, self-checking VIEWNAV Harbor Monitoring System is the most powerful, tactical and strategic decision-making aid available today! Compare this section of NOS chart #12327 to the same area shown on the VIEWNAV display, above. Note that the VIEWNAV Electronic Chart provides NOS chart accuracy and makes important data much easier to see. Radar display, alone, of Port Elizabeth, makes identification of useful information more difficult. Anchorage grids permit fast location and identification of vessels. Data base displays alphanumeric information such as arrival times, departure times, pilot names, etc. : 1 Contact us today for more information and a demonstration. ^•NAVIGATION SCIENCES INC. 6900 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland 20815 USA Call (301) 951-5225; Telex-705999 Guard, the International Maritime Organization, DOT-UK, Sweden, Denmark and several other authori- ties. Circle 32 on Reader Service Card Todd Awarded $11.4-Million Contract For USS Mt. Hood Overhaul Todd Shipyards Corporation, San Francisco, Calif., was recently awarded an $11,478,466 firm-fixed- price contract for the regular over- haul of the U.S.S. Mt. Hood (AE- 29). The work will be performed in San Francisco, and is expected to be completed by March 3 of next year. The contract funds would not have expired at the end of the current fis- cal year. Five bids were solicited and five offers were received. The Su- pervisor of Shipbuilding, Conver- sion and Repair, San Francisco, is the contracting activity (N00024- 85-H-8236). Siess Will Chair NOIA's Pro-Leasing Task Force Charles P. Siess Jr. Charles P. Siess Jr., president and chief executive officer of Mara- thon Manufacturing Company, Houston, has been named 1985-86 chairman of the National Ocean In- dustries Association (NOIA) Pro- Leasing Task Force. The announce- ment was made by NOIA president Charles D. Matthews. As chair- man of this program, Mr. Siess succeeds Paul L. Kelly, vice presi- dent-industry & government rela- tions, for the Rowan Companies, Inc. Pro-Leasing is an advocacy pro- gram to promote oil and gas devel- opment on America's Outer Conti- nental Shelf (OCS). It seeks to en- hance public understanding of the reasons to lease the OCS and unlock its needed natural resources. The program's goal is to inform mem- bers of the Congress, the media, and the American people of the impor- tance of OCS leasing to the nation's well-being. The Pro-Leasing Program has organized NOIA member companies on a state-by-state basis to provide an effective voice nationwide in sup- port of the government's OCS leas- ing program, and to oppose Con- gressional restrictions on OCS de- velopment. In addition to serving as chairman of the Task Force, Mr. Siess is a member of the Executive Commit- tee and on the Board of Directors of the National Ocean Industries Asso- ciation. <• Circle 264 on Reader Service Card 35 NAVIGATION SCIENCES INC VIEWNAV" is a registered trademark dt Navigation Sciences Inc.
